Alitalia Flight 404 is on its final approach to Zurich’s Kloten Airport. The pilots can’t yet see the runway, but their navigational instruments indicate the plane is locked onto the proper signal from the airport

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Mayday: Air Disaster - From Season 18 Episode 8 "Deadly Inclination": On its final approach to Zurich, Alitalia Flight 404 plows into a forested hillside killing everyone on board. Checking the DC-9’s radar track, Swiss investigators immediately notice the aircraft was flying too low. But closer analysis of the evidence only deepens the mystery. Did a hidden flaw in the navigation system lead two pilots down a deadly path?

Every time a plane crashes, the world takes notice. And so do the experts whose job it is to figure out what happened. Mayday 18 uncovers the truth behind the most legendary aviation disasters, and every episode features eyewitness accounts, captivating reenactments, state-of-the-art CGI, and interviews with the investigators who ultimately determined what went wrong.

This season on Mayday: Malaysia Airlines suffers a second catastrophic headline when Flight 17 is blown out of the sky in Ukrainian airspace; investigators must figure out how Virgin Galactic’s test mission ends up as a 35-mile long debris field in the desert; and, when a DC-8 plows into an auto salvage yard, investigators scour the wreckage and uncover a fatal human error.

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